| A | B |
|---|
| dictators | tyrants that take control over entire nations |
| Joseph Stalin | communist dictator that rules Russia or the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin dies. US nemesis until his death. |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator. Allied with Adolf Hitler during WWII. |
| Adolf Hitler | German Fascist dictator that introduced the Third Reich to Germany. |
| Third Reich | Hitler's term that meant the Third Reign. Hitler believed that the Nazism would last a thousand years. |
| Japanese militarists | Generals in Japan who take over Japan but leave the Japanese emperor in place to help support their power. |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist dictator that takes over Spain after defeating the democracy there. |
| totalitarian | any type of government that takes COMPLETE CONTROL over the people and the rights of the people are suppressed. |
| Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 | Acts of the US to establish that the US would not join the hostilities in Europe but would stay NEUTRAL or out of the crisis. |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister before Winston Churchill |
| Fascism | stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of the individual. Power rests with a single strong leader and a small group of devoted party leaders. |
| isolationism | Policy of avoiding foreign entanglements like war. America was a country of isolationists in the 1930's. |
| Austria | First target of Hitler's. Most Austrian's favored unification with Germany and Austria was taken easily. The US and the rest of the world did nothing to help. |
| Sudetenland | Western border regions of Czechoslovakia where 3 million German speaking people lived. Hitler takes the Sudetenland. |
| Munich Pact | Hitler promises that the Sudetenland will be his last territorial demand and France and England believe him. They sell Czechoslovakia for the sake of peace with Germany. |
| Appeasement | Occurs when a nation gives up their principals to pacify the aggressor like Hitler. |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister after Neville Chamberlain. Fought against Hitler. |
| non aggression pact | Germany and Russia agreed not to go to war against each other. The pact only lasts for two years when Hitler invades Russia. |
